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ENTRANCE TO THE SHWAY DAGOHN, RANGOON 199 inferior heavens, the devas, transferred from the Vedic mythology, and the other the spirits of the air, water, and forest. The last are most diligently propitiated, for
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fear of the harm they may do, at a little shrine at the end of each village. Sometimes, it is a mere bamboo cage with a gaudy image or images of a fetish-like ugliness, to which offerings are made by the villagers.